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pyre
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The Iliad
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- Pack animals were his target first, and dogs, but soldiers, too, soon felt transfixing pain from his hard shots, and pyres burned night and day.†
Book 1 *pyres = piles of wood or other burnable materials
- Every Trojan heart would rise, and every man would praise you, especially Alexandras, the prince— you would be sure to come by glittering gifts if he could-see the warrior, Menelaos, the son of Atreus, brought down by your bow, then bedded on a dolorous pyre!†
Book 4pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
- All cries of mourning Priam forbade them; sick at heart therefore in silence they piled corpses on the pyre and burned it down.†
Book 7
- Just so on their side the Akhaians piled dead bodies on their pyre, sick at heart, and burned it down.†
Book 7
- Next day before dawn, in the dim of night, around the pyre, chosen Akhaian men assembled to make one mound for all, with common earth brought in from landward.†
Book 7
- So huge the boar was, no small band could master him, and he brought many to the dolorous pyre.†
Book 9
- Imagine how the pyre of a burning town will tower to heaven and be seen for miles from the island under attack, while all day long outside their town, in brutal combat, pikemen suffer the wargod's winnowing; at sundown flare on flare is lit, the signal fires shoot up for other islanders to see, that some relieving force in ships may come: just so the baleful radiance from Akhilleus lit the sky.†
Book 18
- Before your funeral pyre I'll cut the throats of twelve resplendent children of the Trojans— that is my murdering fury at your death.†
Book 18
- You see I shall soon have done all I promised you: I dragged Hektor this far, to give wild dogs his flesh and let them rend it among themselves, and I have brought twelve radiant sons of Troy whose throats I'll cut, to bloody your great pyre, such fury came upon me at your death.†
Book 23
- By that god best and all-highest, it is not in order to bring hot water near me, till I lay Patroklos on his pyre, and heap his barrow, and shear my hair.†
Book 23
- When they had reached the place Akhilleus chose they put the body down and built the pyre of timber, high as they could wish.†
Book 23
- Apart from the pyre he stood and cut the red-gold hair that he had grown for the river Sperkheios.†
Book 23
- Dismiss these from the pyre to make a meal, and we who are closest to the dead will care for what is to be done now.†
Book 23
- They added timber and enlarged the pyre to a hundred feet a side.†
Book 23
- Sheep and shambling cattle, then, in droves they sacrificed and dressed before the pyre.†
Book 23
- He slung the bodies of four fine horses on the pyre, and groaned.†
Book 23
- Nine hunting dogs had fed at the lord's table; upon the pyre he cut the throats of two, but as for the noble sons of Troy, all twelve he put to the sword, as he willed their evil hour.†
Book 23
- And now, too, Patroklos' pyre would not flame up.†
Book 23
- Akhilleus begs the winds of north and west to blow toward him; he promises fine offerings if you will fan and set aflame the pyre Patroklos lies on, mourned by all Akhaians.†
Book 23
- Then to the fertile plain of Troy they came and fell upon the pyre.†
Book 23
- Just so Akhilleus mourned his friend and gave his bones to the great flame to be devoured; with dragging steps and groans he moved about the pyre.†
Book 23
- Now when the star of morning eastward rose to herald daylight on the earth, and Dawn came after, yellow-robed, above the sea, the pyre died down, the flame sank, and the winds departed, veering homeward once again by sea for Thrace, as the ground swell heaved and foamed.†
Book 23
- Akhilleus left the pyre and lay down spent, and sweet sleep overtook him at a bound.†
Book 23
- Up he sat, then spoke out: "Son of Atreus, noblemen of Akhaias host, begin by wetting down the pyre with tawny wine to quench whatever fire hangs on.†
Book 23
- They will be easy to pick out: he lay alone, in the pyre's middle, and the rest were burnt apart from him, around the edge, all jumbled in no order, men and horses.†
Book 23
- They did his will: dampened the pyre with wine in every part where flame had licked its way and a bed of ashes fallen.†
Book 23
- Next they drew a circle for a mound around the pyre, and laid stones on the line, and made a mound of earth.†
Book 23
- When Dawn that lights the world of mortals came for the tenth day, they carried greathearted Hektor out at last, and all in tears placed his dead body high upon its pyre, then cast a torch below.†
Book 24
- All being gathered and assembled, first they quenched the smoking pyre with tawny wine wherever flames had licked their way, then friends and brothers picked his white bones from the char in sorrow, while the tears rolled down their cheeks.†
Book 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(pyre) a pile of wood or other burnable material -- especially to burn a dead body as in a funeral rite
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)